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The place of the family firm in a traditional industry undergoing rapid social, economic and technological change: an investigation into some of the problems faced by family firms in the British printing industry
thesis
posted on 2018-07-16, 11:09 authored by Bernard A. BarryPart 1 of the thesis traces the development of family firms and describes
some of their characteristics. It examines problems of change facing business
organisations generally at the present time and describes some of the ways in
which these are likely to be particularly acute in family owned concerns. It
concludes by considering the relevance of organisational theory to these
problems.
Part 2 describes the research methodology adopted for the study and its
rationale.
Part 3 is a description of the British printing industry—the industry in
which the work was carried out.
Part 4 contains comparative studies of firms which were selected by the
investigator to represent family firms at various stages of development. This
section ends with an analysis of the ways in which the six firms concerned were
coping with the changes they faced.
The conclusions include an examination of the role of the family firm in
contemporary society and offers some suggestions for ways in which such
enterprises can meet the challenge of change.
Funding
Social Science Research Council. Ashridge Management College.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
Publisher
© B.A. BarryPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
1972Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en